Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey analyze the House passing a three-year TPS extension for 350,000 Haitians, arguing it depresses wages and contrasts this with Ukraine's unique status. They discuss the murder of white auditor Lauren Bullis by Nigerian suspect Ola Lukatan Adon Abel, alleging media suppression, before critiquing the casting of black actor Papa Esidu as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter reboot. The hosts condemn these decisions as cultural subversions that alienate fans, linking Hollywood's decline to Baltimore's economic struggles attributed to demographic shifts and violence, ultimately framing multiculturalism as a threat to white American stability. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tax Season Blood Boil00:12:54
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of Radio Renaissance, April 16th, 2026.
I'm Paul Kersey.
I'm joined by Tom Hennessy, who joined us last week for a very enjoyable conversation.
And I'm sure, Tom, like you and all the other listeners who were in the United States, you had a lot of fun making sure your taxes got sent in April 15th so that we can continue to support the right and tight color all across the nation.
Yes.
Thanks for having me back again.
I'm happy to be here.
I saw where.
Mayor Mondani did some weird tweet where he was joking about, hey, taxes are due.
Let's tax the rich.
And as we all know, New York is basically deciding to go after white homeowners who pay a disproportionate share when it comes to their home values being worth more than the city's 67% non white.
Of course, he doesn't mention Asians.
He doesn't break things down and dare even mention Jews or Indians.
It's just white people have to pay.
And I think a lot of people across the nation, especially listening to this podcast, probably paid their taxes and they thought to themselves, where is this money going?
And as we'll discuss, well, it's going to make sure that Haitians are well fed, housed, and given health care to stay in this nation.
Yeah, right.
And I'm in Florida, and, you know, Florida's seeing an influx of Mandami refugees coming down here.
So I may cash in on that as I'm trying to sell my property, actually.
So.
We'll see what happens with that influx of New York refugees.
It's astonishing when you look at the states that have the highest influx of Americans, the growth of places like South Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida.
Those are, I believe, some of the three states that have seen the largest proportion of Americans move from other states.
You know, failing states, that's what they are California, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York.
Rhode Island, even.
They're all headed to places like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
And we've already seen what happened to states like Virginia and North Carolina when that influx was brought in and the democratic changes that took place within the party structure.
Yeah, it's a double edged sword.
I mean, you get a lot of wealth coming to the state, but then you get the politics that come with it from those people that have fled.
So, I mean, I think in some cases it can be good.
You might get the right kind of people fleeing to your state, but oftentimes they carry their politics with them and then it doesn't help your state anymore.
Well, let's read a couple comments real quick from listeners.
We appreciate each and every one of you, so we'll go quick.
Somali gays demanding public bathhouses.
We did discuss the story of the push in Minneapolis for the, I don't know how big the community is, but they are large enough to have advocates for restoring the bathhouses to the Twin Cities that have been closed since 1988.
Listeners of last week's podcast, you might recall and remember sort of some sordid details that those shut down in 1988 due to a gay city council member who pushed for that.
And then he passed away of AIDS.
I'm sorry, he died of AIDS in 1991.
So, Our listener writes, I thought it was forbidden to be a sodomite among Muslims with penalty of death.
I prefer not to use the word gay as it is yet another stolen word, as in the rainbow.
My observances in late 1970s San Francisco, as this person says, bathhouses were in use.
Stalls with holes in the doors where men backed up to those access holes.
A little too much.
We try and be a family friendly show, but goodness gracious.
Pride parades rolled down the street with open sodomy on display.
Some sodomites were flamboyant and flagrant enough.
To avoid obtaining employment and thereby qualifying for disability checks.
This left these young and not disabled men free to roam the streets looking for young male runaways, whom were offered places to stay in return for sex, I assume.
Then along came AIDS, HIV hitting the area heavily.
Act up and other sodomite activists then demanded free medications, quite costly for U.S. taxpayers.
The taxpayers were built once again.
Well, I guess you have to wonder how much of the taxes that we've sent in and that we pay yearly, both state, local, and federal taxes, go to help for PrEP medicine.
A question I really don't know if I want answered.
By the way, Cyril Ramaphosa, that's the correct pronunciation of his name.
Simon Roach is a South African.
Afrikaner with the Sudlanders prep group, who came to the US in 2017 to make Americans aware of their plight and warn us that the danger is coming here.
Our listener says, I met him, became a friend, and made him aware of Amran and other applicable groups.
And they recommend checking out the page for the Sudlanders.
Hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.
I'm not very fluent in Dutch.
But check out their YouTube page, Ethno Nationalist Afrikaner Survivalist Group.
Hopefully, they'll be able to get into the United States.
We're not going to talk about this story at length because I haven't been able to verify it.
But apparently, one of the Christian organizations that gets hundreds of millions, billions of dollars to resettle refugees, Tom, they are doing everything they can to stymie the vetting of white South Africans, the Afrikaners trying to come here.
And hopefully, we'll be able to talk about that story next week.
But I think you saw that tweet and we talked about it because the State Department has aggressive numbers of.
Afrikaners, they want to resettle, but they've only been able to get 5,000 just far.
And you have to ask yourself, how are Somalis, how are Hondurans, Nicaraguans, how are Congolese, Senegalese, Sierra Leoneans, how are Haitians vetted?
Or are they just able to do what we saw during the Biden administration show up at the border en masse and then they're given a cell phone and a plane ticket and they're flown to their new accommodations?
Yeah, yeah, right.
And I think, I guess the way that government apparatus works is they have to have.
You know, they distribute the money to a network of NGOs, and then the NGOs are the facilitators and they actually do the work.
So you have a bunch of NGOs that are extremely liberal and leftist, and they see what's going on and they don't want to help white refugees, basically.
So I guess if a lot of these NGOs refuse to help, I don't know exactly how they're still getting money or funding if they're refusing to help, but apparently they are to some degree, and it's stymieing the ability to get the Afrikaners here.
Yeah, it's just an extraordinary story.
And speaking of extraordinary stories, this actually just happened as we were getting ready and prepping for today's program.
The House has decided to break with Donald Trump and has voted against ending deportation protections for Haitians.
So, again, all of you paying your taxes, get ready to understand what those tax dollars are going to help ensure maintains the status quo.
The House.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I looked into one of the people that voted for this.
His name's Don Bacon out of Nebraska.
Republican.
Right.
So I looked him up.
And yeah, sure enough, he's in the Omaha district.
And Omaha is famous for its meatpacking.
And sure enough, these meatpackers have been notorious for using illegal slave labor to pad their profit margins.
So I posted about it.
But yeah, he's one of the people.
But I think it's many such cases, I'm afraid.
Where these representatives are beholden to the businesses in their district who are profiting off of the slave labor.
And at the end of the day, they are doing what they want, not what the people want, or not what's best for America.
Yeah.
Jared Taylor and I, earlier this year, we talked about how in Florida there was just an extraordinary story in the foreword about how a.
Nursing home, largely for the Jewish community, they were talking about hiding Haitians like Anne Frank from the Trump administration in the attics of their facility.
And, you know, again, you're reading that and you're like, is this a real headline?
And it actually was.
And there's another Republican representative.
I don't have her name in front of me right now, but she's basically said the same thing that these people are filling a need in the marketplace to provide health care.
And you ask yourself, well, how.
How inexpensively are they?
How are they driving down the market value of that vocation when you have people who are subsisting on just foreign aid?
I mean, that's basically Haiti is there's no working government for Haitians to go back to right now.
I don't even think Port au Prince's airport is open.
So they probably don't have a port you can go to because you have such disarray in that nation.
General Barbecue's in charge.
I'm not sure who's in charge right now, but you've got various gangs that are vying for control of a failed nation, but we can't say it's failed because of the implications.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I forget what I was going to say, but yeah, the Haitians, I mean, there's nothing that good that could come from this.
I think Don Bacon said that it was 350,000, right, that are here.
It's just a crazy amount.
And he was concerned because so many of them work in healthcare.
And immediately, that's concerning to me because why are we putting very low-intelligent people into our healthcare system?
That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
If these people are acting as nurses to some capacity, how do they get these positions?
There's obviously a lot of DEI going on to get them into these roles.
They certainly wouldn't be qualified on a level playing field.
So it's extremely concerning that these people are here in any role, performing any roles other than just manual labor.
Before we get started with this story, I do want to point out that obviously temporary protective status, it offers currently, according to the DHS website I'm looking at right now, 1,297,000 individuals from 17 countries.
This was as of March 31st, 2025.
Venezuela has 605 approved individuals.
Obviously, we don't know if they brought over family, if that's allowed via.
Via TPS, if you're able to do some form of chain migration, Haiti is the second largest with 350,000.
And that number also actually includes a number of illegal alien Haitians who came over and were not grandfathered in, but they were allowed to stay via this during the Biden rush.
El Salvador is number three with 170,000.
The only white nation on here is the Ukraine.
And of course, they wouldn't be on here were it not for the just fratricidal.
You know, Slavic war between the Russians and Ukrainians that is still going on since 2022.
There's 100,000 Ukrainians.
And of course, we know Irina Zarutska was one of those.
She was a refugee.
So, of course, we regrettably remember what happened to her in Charlotte back in late August of 2025, followed by Honduras, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Syria, Burma, Nicaragua, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Lebanon.
There you go.
So, of those, only one nation that is a white nation.
So, as we go to Haiti here, this story, though, this is going to make a lot of our listeners' blood boil, especially again, if for those of you who, especially if you have a 1099 and you had to do your scheduled C and you had to pay a lot more because they're not taking out your federal and state taxes, like a W 2 job, this is what your money is going, this is what your hard earned tax dollars, Tom and dear listener, is going to help sustain and maintain.
Haiti TPS Vote Pushback00:15:06
So, the House delivered a rare pushback on April 16th against Trump's immigration policies in a vote to stop the administration from ending TPS for Haitian nationals living in the U.S. Ayana Presley of Massachusetts, a Democrat, spearheaded the effort to force a vote through a procedural tool known as a discharge petition.
This tool, which has seen increasing success under the fractured House Republican majority, hit the 2018 signature threshold it needed to bypass GOP leadership and bring the measure to the floor in late March.
Again, The New Century Foundation, Tom, is nonpartisan, but it really is embarrassing that the GOP leadership would have failed to have kept everyone in line and united at a time where you've got the Dignity Act being pushed by a Hispanic congresswoman from Miami.
Yeah, Maria Salazar.
It's not a good look for the administration.
Yeah.
And that name, Maria Salazar, she was one of the Republican representatives along with Brian Fitzpatrick, Mike Lohler of New York, and the aforementioned Don Bacon of Nebraska.
Interesting surname when it comes to what all these Haitians are doing in Omaha, by the way, the meatpacking plant.
Yeah, this TPS, this is in addition to our normal immigration.
This is, you know, TPS gives them extra benefits, it gives them extra status.
You know, these people don't need to be net contributors to our society, kind of like gets around that loophole.
So it allows them to bring all these, you know, third worlders here to this country.
I guess because we feel bad about it, and that's the whole thing behind this.
We just feel bad for these people.
So we just bring them here and we give them money.
We give them programs and we give them preferential treatment with getting jobs and all kinds of assistance that we don't even give Americans.
So it's very strange.
No, it's.
Especially when you look at some of the things Democrats said that ending TPS would be a death sentence.
This is back in February.
Because again, this was supposed to end under Biden.
TPS has protected Haitians since 2010.
An earthquake there dismantled and disrupted whatever services, whatever form of working government existed loosely.
I'm using that term loosely to describe the life that Haitians had created in the absence of aid, primarily from the United States, USAID, and.
Alms given by Christian organizations within the United States that basically have a nation entirely suffering because it's full of Haitians.
But of course, like you said, the access to a better quality of life in America, even if it is just working these menial jobs, it does drive down that barrier for entry that you would pay an American a living wage.
Why worry about that when you can just pay a Haitian to do a job?
That otherwise you'd have to pay better wages, healthcare, and especially when healthcare is probably something that is provided by the government, as opposed to for a W 2 job with one of these meatpacking plants, you'd have to then factor in the labor costs as well associated.
Yeah, and then you have to house all these people too.
So then your housing market goes up.
There's less housing.
There's all the housing shortage in America right now.
You look at the numbers and it's not from white population growth.
So it's, oh, we need 10,000 more homes in this one area.
And you look at the numbers and you realize, oh, these are all for foreigners.
This is what's creating the housing shortage.
What's interesting is at the end of the month, I believe the TPS for Venezuelans and for Somalis, I'm sorry, for Haitians, Is going before the Supreme Court.
So this will actually be a serious debate there in Washington, D.C.
And this is also something that I don't think it has a chance of passing the Senate.
And of course, it can basically say, hey, I'm going to veto this.
I'm sorry.
The underlying bill was introduced last year by Democrat Rep. Laura Gillen of New York.
It would require DHS to extend temporary protective status for Haitians until 2029.
It passed 224 to 204.
With 10 Republicans and all Democrats voting in favor, when it was announced that it passed, every Democrat mayor, a member of the House stood up and clapped and celebrated.
And that's something you think about when, at the State of the Union, when President Trump had Irina Zaruska's mother brought up and he acknowledged what had happened and acknowledged what happened to Irina.
Not one Democrat stood up to clap for her or even acknowledged it.
The bill narrows one apparently introduced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2019 when he was a Florida senator, which, you know, Tom, I got to say, that shows the remarkable evolution toward sanity that Rubio has been, that path that he's been traversing since 2019 when he decided, hey, we've got to keep this thing going.
I find that fascinating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One other thing I was just going to say the TPS, you know, Somalians enjoyed this for.
I think it was like 34 years.
And I think it was just ended.
I don't know if it's actually officially ended, but Trump and the DHS secretary, who's no longer with the administration, I think they officially ended that.
So, but once you give these people this status, it's extremely hard to remove it.
It is.
So it's just something to think about.
We need to be more careful when it comes to giving anybody any kind of special treatment because inevitably it goes on for decades.
And the number of.
The number of Somalis was unbelievably minuscule.
I think it was under 1,000 who actually had TPS status.
Most of them just come over as refugees and they're just brought here.
And then with chain migration, they just keep coming and become naturalized.
And I misspoke, by the way.
It's not Venezuela, it's Syria.
So at the end of this month, the Supreme Court is going to weigh in on the legal battle over Trump, the Trump admin's efforts to roll back the TPS for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria.
A federal judge blocked the administration from revoking the legal protections for Haiti in February, one day before they were set to lapse.
I want to say that was February 26.
And an appeals court panel declined to freeze the lower court's decision.
Again, TPS, this is not forever.
But again, the left wants to make sure it's forever because I'm sure they're looking at what Spain just did with their coalition leftist government to ensure that the right is inundated at the ballot box.
They're extending the franchise to illegal immigrants.
Primarily African, Tom, and some of the videos I've seen, the line for people applying for this, they had estimated it would be 500,000.
Now they're saying it's going to be 800,000.
And again, once you're a citizen, you can vote.
Spain's part of the EU, they can travel all throughout the EU nations.
I've seen the pictures and it looks like something out of a movie.
And just real quick, Congress, the TPS system was created in 1990.
Again, another absolute mistake by a nation choking on its whiteness, I guess.
I was born about five years prior.
And it is fascinating to think that 1990 was also a year that there was an Immigration Act passed.
It was 1980, the Refugee Act was passed.
And so all these acts take time to erode away the social capital.
That whites built over decades, over centuries.
And it is just so quickly how easy these population groups can basically act as a termite infestation to weed away the efforts that go unrewarded.
And basically, we're taught that this is privilege we're choking on.
I think Mr. Taylor talks about that, where he talks about in a video on Twitter that is still getting a lot of.
A lot of traction where he talks about how it's almost as if you people think we were choking on our whiteness.
Whiteness.
And I've always loved the way he says that because that, you know, again, in 1970, America was 203 million people, 88% white.
And it's just extraordinary to think that because the Haitians are unable to create, sustain, and maintain a government, any form of government, we have a responsibility, a moral obligation.
To welcome them into our nation and have them work menial jobs that would be good paying jobs for Americans.
But when you have infinity immigrants available, it's simple supply and demand.
Yeah, it makes me think when I was in the early 90s, when I was in high school, and I don't remember any of this stuff happening.
You certainly didn't hear about it, but that was before the internet.
There wasn't a lot of people online, so you were only told what you saw on TV.
So it makes me wonder how much of this.
If this was happening today, would these laws have passed given the access to information that we have today?
Great point.
Because back then, you know, how much do we know, even though it passed in 1980 for the Refugee Act, you know, they started bringing the Somalians in in 92 or 93, 92 or 93.
And obviously, I don't think I heard anything about it.
And it was probably because the mainstream media, we were, they do not dare talk about anything that would not promote multiculturalism.
Well, anything that, that, Has a hint, even a scent, even the slightest scent of being positive for the white majority.
That on its face is bad and it has to be the exact reverse has to be put in place.
Brandon Gill continues to be one of the few congressmen who's really making a name for himself along with Senator Eric Schmidt.
Before this vote took place, he said, Does mass migration from Haiti benefit the American people?
The answer is obviously no.
65% of Haitian headed households.
In the United States, we are on welfare.
And then from this CBS News article I'm reading, Tom, we get this from those lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, who were pushing to make sure TPS was extended.
Ayanna Presley said, the stakes could not be higher, calling the Trump admin's decision to send Haitians back to Haiti a death sentence.
Again, it's full of Haitians.
This is a nation that was literally born in white genocide, where Haitians have created a constitution that precluded whites from owning property in 1804.
It's a nation dominated by black supremacy, and it would be a death sentence for Haitians to go back.
Congressman Gillen, not to be confused with Gill, said it was cruel to expect Haitians to be forced to return to these deadly, dangerous conditions.
And there was no laugh track there to be like, wait a second, they're just going back to Haiti.
Again, it's Haitians who are creating these deadly, dangerous conditions.
Mike Lawler, the congressman from New York, he argued that sending people back to Haiti to unsafe conditions when they are currently here lawfully is unjust and unwise.
You know, Tom, wasn't there a story where.
Actually, it might have been a Bangladeshi immigrant who was beaten to death by a Haitian refugee with a hammer in Florida recently.
Yes, yes.
Someone working at the gas station, I think Haitian, you know, killed her with a hammer.
I don't even know what the dispute was about.
And then another Haitian, apparently an American citizen in Daytona, Daytona area, murdered a woman, a Jewish woman, while she was out walking her dog.
That's right.
So, yeah, that all happened within the last two weeks.
And in that case, they were part of a home health care, those Haitians, and they were here legally, obviously.
So, yeah.
And then, like what you were saying, can you imagine if you were just reverse the situation?
Imagine if someone told you, as a white person, we're going to send you back to your country that is full of white people.
That would be amazing.
Well, and of course, it's not because now it has to be filled with Haitians or Sudanese or Congolese.
We're going to talk about another story where, well, I won't.
It's what just happened in Atlanta to a DHS auditor, an employee of Atlanta, due to the interaction that she regrettably had walking her dog with a naturalized American from the United Kingdom by way of Nigeria.
So that story is coming up here shortly.
But let's finish this story.
Representative Waller, a Republican, argued that sending people back to Haiti to unsafe conditions when they are currently.
Here, lawfully, is unjust and unwise, as I said.
The State Department itself says that Haiti is unsafe for Americans to travel to, which is in complete contradiction with the Department of Homeland Security saying that it is safe for Haitian immigrants to return to, said Lawler, a Republican whose New York district is one of the most closely contested seats in the House.
Again, it's a strange paradox there because if Haiti is unsafe for Americans to travel to, it's unsafe because of the actions of individual Haitians collectively making it unsafe.
So, why should one Haitian be in the United States?
Full stop.
Correct.
Yeah.
You don't want to take people from a, oh, a bunch of savages are in Haiti causing a problem.
Let's take some of those people and bring them here.
Not a good idea.
Yeah.
And Ayanna Presley, a co chair of the House Haiti Caucus, I don't think it's a good thing that the United States has a House Haiti Caucus, has for months been making the case to Republicans and some apprehensive Democrats to get on board.
The aide said Presley's pitch has emphasized the negative economic impacts, particularly on the caregiving workforce, if more than 300,000 Haitians are forced to leave the U.S. Again, this was something that I don't think a lot of people saw coming, but that one representative that I mentioned, Melio Takis, Republican, who did not sign the discharge petition but helped advance it on the floor,
said she has heard from nursing homes in her district that would lose nursing staff if the protections are not renewed.
Border Line Delineation00:04:38
Tom, she said this These Haitian immigrants are working, paying taxes, and contributing to our economy and fulfilling a health care need.
To strip them of their status and deport them to a country in peril would be uncompassionate and misguided.
You know, the only thing that I care about are elected representatives showing compassion.
And guiding their moral decisions on what's best for Americans, not on what they deem is beneficial to the poor, misfortunate, downtrodden Haitians who would just be returned back to Haiti.
I mean, again, I was told by Conan O'Brien back in 2018 that Haiti is already great.
He even went down there and he did skits for his late night show wearing a shirt.
Haiti is already great.
And I'd love to get one of those shirts or I'd love to have one made that said, Haiti has never been great.
But again, that's a conversation for another day.
Hey, you know, I teach.
Go ahead.
Remember a bunch of influencers going to Haiti and talking about, oh, it's fine to come here a while back, probably during that same time that Conan did that.
So, yeah, this is where those people are from.
They should go back to their own people and they could make Haiti great again.
Yeah, Bill Maher, I remember seeing him in a shirt and Susan Tarandran and the actress.
And of course, Conan O'Brien, he's there in Port au Prince.
I'm sure the picture was actually taken in the Dominican Republic.
I'm sure you know how big the wall is.
And how militarized the wall is separating the Dominican Republic from Haiti, and how illegal aliens from Haiti in the Dominican Republic are treated, and how quickly they are removed without any insight or care of being compassionate, except for making sure that they are not allowed to stay in the DR for an extended period of time.
Only a foolish nation would offer TPS.
It's not compassion, there's no alms, it's not altruistic because you're not putting your people first.
You're putting these other individuals first.
And like I said, yesterday was tax day, and all the hardworking Americans listen to this podcast, and we think all of our non Americans listen as well.
But for those of you who got your taxes sent off or well before April 15th, just know that those tax dollars are going to help.
Goodness gracious, of the 1.2 million people on TPS, only 100,000 of those are white Ukrainians.
The rest, 1,100,000, are black or Mohammedans or Hispanic.
Yeah, if you look at the satellite imagery, just real quick about that border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, you can actually see the delineation line.
It's incredible.
There's a lack of education on the Haiti side because people have.
Been cutting down the only vegetation they have to light on fire.
And then the Dominican Republic side, you still see greenery.
So it's pretty interesting.
Yeah, I mean, there's Richard Lynn.
I think he once wrote a book, The IQ and the Wealth of Nations, and broke things down.
And it is fascinating to look at the difference.
And it basically is, it comes alive, the racial IQ differences in the Dominican and Haiti, just by that visualization of the vegetation on both sides.
And also, when it's a nighttime satellite photo, the amount of lights on one side and electricity.
And signs of civilization versus the absolute darkness of Haiti, except for maybe, I don't know, maybe a fire or something.
I don't know, maybe some of the cannibals have some food on the spit.
So, anyways, Sam Dixon and I just did a book review of Haiti or the Black Republic, which is just this tremendous book that came out at the end of the 19th century by a member of the.
Well, he was a high class Brit who was over there, St. John.
And it's just this extraordinary book where he basically, the first edition came out, Tom, and he was excoriated by the press for writing this sensationalized book that dared to point out just how much cannibalism was going on in Haiti.
So he went back to try and show that, you know what, maybe I got it wrong.
And then in the second edition, he wrote, not only did I not get it wrong, but I was.
Far, far off based on how bad and pervasive this problem of cannibalism in Haiti actually is.
Atlanta Suspect Details00:10:08
So, anyways, yeah.
So, I do recommend for those listeners who haven't had a chance to check it out, please do look up the White Man's Library.
Sam Dixon and I just did an absolutely tremendous book that should be coming up tomorrow.
Think Again, White Man.
It's the only book, it's the first book that the white South African government in 1966 banned for being too right wing.
So, you can only imagine how great this book is then.
And we're going to do Claude Bower's The Tragic Age this week, which is the best book on what actually happened during reconstruction of the militarized South as it was under military occupation.
Tom, there's a story that's near and dear to my heart because I know exactly where this happened in Atlanta, Georgia, in Brookhaven.
That's very close to Buckhead, which is one of the richer, more glamorous cities within a city in the South.
And of course, longtime listeners might recall that Buckhead tries to secede from the city of Atlanta so that they could control a greater portion of their taxes and that they wouldn't be misallocated.
And misappropriated to basically fund heavily black parts of the city that strangely don't produce that much tax revenue, but take a lot, take far more than they produce.
But that was shot down by the Republican governor because it would have been devastating to Atlanta.
But this story is devastating to any of those of us who care about Atlanta because 11 Alive, the NBC affiliate there, reported that a woman was shot, stabbed to death in DeKalb County while walking their dog.
Police linked the suspect to other crimes.
A witness described what she saw outside her home and tried to help the woman.
Well, here's what happened.
It turns out that 40 year old Lauren Bullis, a white woman who was employed with the Department of Homeland Security as an auditor, was walking her dog at 7 a.m. Monday morning this past week.
So that was what, April 13th?
She was shot and stabbed to death.
Authorities announced an arrest, linked the suspect in the case to two other shootings in the metro area.
Brookhaven police shared in a news conference that 26 year old Ola Lukatan Adon Abel of Atlanta is facing multiple charges, including murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Mr. Hennessy, Ola Lukatan Adon Abel, it turns out, was a naturalized American back in 2022 under the Biden admin by way of the United Kingdom.
Now, he arrived in the United Kingdom.
As Peter Brimelow told me, that sounds like a name for one of the Nigerian tribes.
And if you look at him, he looks heavily Nigerian.
And I think you looked up and you saw that he had actually had quite the record when it came to crimes committed since his stay in the United States.
Yeah.
So he, San Diego, he was charged with a felony for, and convicted for, I think he pulled a gun on a peace officer.
So one of those not full police officers, the kind of people that do the traffic stops or the The car accidents, kind of thing.
So he pulled a gun on one of those people.
And then in Savannah, he was charged with four different sex crimes.
I don't know if they were felonies or not, but he was charged and convicted.
And part of one of the agreements for his conviction was that he was basically agreed to leave town.
I don't know exactly how long they've been doing that, but he had to leave town and he agreed to leave town.
And so he took his deviancy elsewhere, apparently to Atlanta.
So I don't know exactly why he was in Atlanta.
I don't even know why he was naturalized.
It's too bad we don't have more transparency.
For these kinds of things.
It's really unfortunate because, you know, why was this guy naturalized?
Why was he in the UK?
A lot of questions still.
Yeah, well, one of the questions that we do have answered is what happened on Monday morning in Brookhaven, regrettably, because a neighbor, a black woman, Tiffany Williams, told 11 Alive's Marissa Sarbak that it happened right in front of her home.
I was getting up, getting my grandbaby ready for school, and I heard six to seven shots, so I ran out the door.
And when I ran out the door, I saw the lady across the street with a man standing over her.
And of course, she's referring to Lauren Bullis, the white DHS employee.
And I Ola Lukatan Adon Abel, the black Nigerian from the United Kingdom who is a naturalized American as of 2022.
Let's just make sure we all get it straight.
She says this I heard the shooting, but I'm not thinking because as a mother and I'm seeing her lying there, I'm like, oh my God, I've got to help her.
One neighbor said they heard about 10 gunshots.
Another said the woman and her husband routinely walked their dog in the neighborhood.
I've seen them out frequently.
It's basically her routine pattern of walking where she'll come up the hill and go around.
That woman, Williams, who was quoting about trying to protect her grandbaby, said the man was pulling down the woman's pants when they made eye contact.
I saw he was wearing all black and then he ran up the street.
You know, Tom, this is probably the most.
Shocking aspect of the story that we're now importing and naturalizing Nigerian necrophiliacs.
Is that part of the Homeland Security's operational procedures during Biden admin?
Right.
And that's an important detail to the story.
And if you notice, the mainstream media is not talking about that.
So they'll cover it to a degree, but they won't actually cover all the details.
So one of the details was that he was trying to pull down her pants to rape her.
And this is after.
So apparently, she was athletic.
From the pictures I've seen, Looks like she exercises regularly.
She's pretty athletic.
So she was probably trying to run away to some degree.
And then he shot her or stabbed her.
Who knows?
But then he was trying to pull her pants off.
Incredibly disturbing.
But it's also interesting how you see the mainstream media will gatekeep the information and they'll tell you some of it.
But the most horrific details, they will, you know, it doesn't matter that she got shot in the face or stabbed.
They'll tell you that.
But pulling off her pants and trying to rape her, well, that's just too far.
They won't tell you that much because that might.
Cause you to have second thoughts about having these people in your country.
That line was actually buried in the 11 Alive story.
And I was shocked when I read that.
And I put out a tweet on it that, again, it, whatever, how many views it got, but our friend Dan Lyman from Infowars and Borderhawk.news, he included that in his story that he wrote for Infowars.
And I thought it was important because that, to me, this guy's already shot Lauren Bullis six times, stabbed her, she's dead.
And then he's pulling off.
Her pants.
I mean, this is one of those stories that you think about the TPS for Haitians, you think about TPS for Syrians, you think about TPS for any of these other countries, Yemen, Nicaragua, Honduras, whatever.
All of these crimes that are committed by people who were not here, but were brought here because of our compassion and because we believe that America is a nation of immigrants and that we're enriched.
Because, again, as Mr. Taylor said in that video, you all think we were just.
Choking on our whiteness, on our homogeneity.
All of these were preventable.
And it was really sad because I know exactly the street where this happened.
And it's just 7 a.m.
You get up after the weekend, you're getting ready to get your day going, you're walking your dog.
And who knows what her last moments on earth were.
But we do know that after her life ended, this guy, according to this story from 11 Alive, was.
Caught pulling down her pants, and you can read between the lines about what he was going to do.
But this is 7 a.m. and right outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and you're not far from Buckhead.
And Brookhaven has got some pretty dodgy parts, but it is an area with definitely a high per capita income on average.
There are some areas that are a little darker, but it is a very much majority white area.
Little city state.
In fact, they actually did become, they actually did, like Roswell, Sandy Springs, they did vote to become part of their own city.
So they did somewhat secede so that they could control and have their own police force.
But this was just a brutal story to read.
And again, there's so much happening in the news right now that I'm hoping as we learn more of what happened and he has to go before court and whatnot, we actually find out, okay, what was going on here.
And he has to confess to what he was planning to do to.
To Bolas's dead body.
Yeah, it's a great example of how you could watch how the media frames the story.
Although they won't tell you where he's from, they'll say Atlanta man.
They'll call him an American, which I guess technically was naturalized, but they'll be very careful to only say he's an Atlanta man.
They won't tell you he's black.
They won't tell you that he's from Nigeria.
They also won't tell you that it's very relevant that he was trying to rape her.
It was from an eyewitness, an eyewitness.
Gave that information.
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So there's no reason not to include it on every story.
And you have to wonder it's like, well, why aren't they including it?
Is it because of the female, how the women in society might react to that?
Because they can accept, you know, black murder, but oh, if the blacks are raping, then the women that our news goes to might have a bad reaction to, you know, importing more refugees here.
So it's just, it's despicable how they withhold some information on stories, very little details like this.
Well, speaking about importing refugees and importing diversity to areas that were choking on their whiteness, I do want to bring up a story, and you can laugh as I'm reading this because this is one that I've found the reaction to, and especially the debut of the trailer and the fact that it has been so universally hated by fans of this series.
Harry Potter series has serious security.
Because of racist death threats against Papa Esidu.
Esidu.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Again, sorry to our Ghanan listeners who might be upset that I'm not pronouncing the black actor who is now going to play the role of Severus Snape in the HBO unnecessary reboot of Harry Potter.
And again, some of our listeners, you can laugh about this, but this is a very important story because HBO is spending $100 million per episode, so $700 million per season to.
Basically, redo the Harry Potter movies for the HBO streaming service, Tom, that are beloved by fans.
I've seen them all.
I saw almost all of them in theaters.
I've read, just as Mr. Taylor did to his children, I've read the books to my little ones.
I think the stories are fantastic.
And this is only interesting because of the reaction and the amount of absolute hatred.
That Harry Potter fans have shown to the casting of a character that J.K. Rowling makes quite clear, Severus Snape, who was played by the white British actor Alan Rickman in the Harry Potter films.
She's quite over the top in that this is a white character, has an ashen face, very gothic.
All of the drawings that accompany some of the books, as you can get, they all show Severus Snape as a white guy.
And more importantly, this is a role that.
Alan Rickman, I don't know if you've seen any of the movies, he so nailed the nuances of Severus Snape from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Sorcerer's Stone, as it was called in the United States, to the Deathly Hollows.
I mean, it is an absolutely poignant portrayal of a character that you think is bad, but it turns out, spoiler for anybody who doesn't know the Harry Potter story, it turns out that he is pretty much a simp for Harry's mother.
And He promised Albus Dumbledore that he would protect Harry, the boy who lived, and was basically a double agent against the Dark Lord Voldemort.
Yes, I know a lot about Harry Potter.
And this story is one that I'm really enjoying about this this is one of the most downvoted.
You can give a thumbs up or a thumbs down to a trailer on YouTube.
People hate this.
And Harry Potter fans hate this because you're basically.
Now, having a black actor, this Papa Esidu, whatever, this Ghana English actor, we'll call him Papa for the rest of the story.
But you're having him try and take over this role where, in the very first book, he's accused, and now he'll be the only black teacher at Hogwarts of trying to steal and being this just absolute villain who, throughout the whole movie or throughout the whole show, you'll find was also obsessed with Lily Potter, Harry's mother, and that James Potter, Harry's dad, when they were at Hogwarts.
Tortured and made fun of, and cruelly did magic tricks to a point of having him hang upside down from a tree.
That'll be quite the scene to show in the movie or in the HBO show.
The Papa version of Severus Snape hanging from a tree by four white boys, marauders.
Anyways, HBO boss Casey Bloss told multiple outlets this week the network has taken precautions anticipating the vitriol that the Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone actors would face.
Gone and English actor Papa Asidu recently spoke about the racist.
Abuse and death threats he has received since the announcements that he had been cast as Potions Professor Severus Snape.
He said this with all actors of any kind of big IP shows, intellectual property shows, and this is obviously one of those where you've got passionate fans, people with a lot of opinions, it can get scary in places.
So for any show like that, we anticipated it and tried to have training, best practices in terms of social media and how to handle it.
And obviously, we've got a serious security team.
Tom, quick personal anecdote.
Back in 2015, I remember when the first trailer for Star Wars Episode 7 came out.
I don't even remember what the movie's tagline was or what The Force Awakens.
I think it's called The Force Awakens.
And John Bodega shows up in the very first scene, the black actor, as a stormtrooper.
And I was one of the first people who put up a tweet.
Gosh, this is 11 years ago boycott Star Wars.
And this took off.
And I remember there were all these stories about like Jack Posobick and Mike Cernovich.
Who jumped in on this and the racist abuse that John Boyga got?
And it was making me laugh because it's no longer people who are just running Twitter accounts who are upset with what's happening.
It's actual fans of Harry Potter who are passionate about this, who love these books, who, I mean, this is their reality in a lot of ways.
And I don't go ahead.
My wife is very invested in the Harry Potter series.
It's something that she's extremely passionate about.
She has all the books.
She still watches the movies from time to time.
And I can only think that this is not just an accident.
I mean, this is a deliberate subversion of our culture, is what I believe.
I don't know who the actors, the malicious actors, are behind the decision making that go into casting these roles.
I can only assume.
But, you know, this is not an accident.
They are purposely subverting our culture, taking things that are cherished by white Americans and destroying them.
Systematically.
And this is part of that, in my opinion.
Yeah, I mean, there are plenty of actors who could play the role because, again, changing the racial dynamics makes the whole dynamic about Severus being obsessed with Lily Potter quite strange and protecting Harry Potter.
And then also the fact that he's quite abusive throughout the first four books to the students of Hogwarts.
And again, he's accused of stealing, he's accused of trying to put a hex and kill Harry Potter in the first story during the.
Harry's first foray into Quidditch.
Gosh, I am divulging far too much knowledge of the Harry Potter universe by not sticking strict to the script.
I can just, again, I find this fascinating because there's a great website that Vox Day, I believe, runs.
It's called Arch Haven Comics.
And they pointed out that, quote, the Harry Potter IP is multi generational and it couldn't be more normie friendly.
The trailer for Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone was immune to the algorithms.
It should have been an easy win, even if the rest of the show is screwed up when it arrives.
That didn't happen, though.
Five years ago, fans would have said, hey, well, hey, maybe the trailer has missed the mark, but let's wait and see.
But this time, the fans noped out at the trailer.
Done.
This is active rejection.
Why?
The easy answer is Black Snape, except he's not the real problem.
He's barely in it at all.
Truthfully, the trailer is hiding him.
And arguably, it's one of the few choices that can be justified.
More to the point, the trailer is a failure of the plastic age of Hollywood.
And it talks about how apparently a couple years ago there was a Hogwarts Legacy video game released, Tom.
And I'm not a gamer, but I remember the ads for it back in 2021.
And when it launched, it brought in $1 billion in total revenue within the first months, $850 million in just the first two weeks.
There's not been a bigger selling game since its release.
It had a server breaking 900,000 players when it first went live.
And still has a healthy player base today.
That is an extraordinary amount of participants playing this video game where you could actually interact like it was some, oh God, what was that movie?
Ready Player One, like it was some virtual reality system where you could just put down the worries of the day and grab your virtual broomstick and jump into Hogwarts.
And no, it's just a fascinating moment because we already saw what happened with the Lord of the Rings remake that Amazon, well, it's not a remake, but the Rings of Power show where they added just unnecessary diversity for the sake of diversity.
And basically because the Peter Jackson films that were made all at the same time, thank God, and probably right before wokeness really took over.
And so Jackson was just.
Adherent and devoted to the source material.
And so those movies are gloriously white, as the artist and the author of those works, Tolkien, intended.
And yet, what we're learning here from Arkhaven is they wrote this casting a black actor works in this scenario potentially.
The problem is that you could look at a cover phone of Ellen Rickman and think, yeah, he'd make a good Snape.
You can't do that with Papa Isidu.
Casting a black man isn't absolutely the wrong choice, but the casting this one is.
Snape is ugly, as J.K. Rowling points out.
That's all there is to it.
And the new Snape, as the authors write, he just looks like this gone in dude with dreads.
It doesn't make any sense in the sense of what was the purpose of this except to spit in the face of the fans, to exist as not an adaptation, not a continuation, but a reinterpretation for audiences.
And that now realize, again, they're spending billions of dollars.
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They're not going to get that back.
I actually am convinced it's not going to get a second.
It might last a couple seasons, but it's not going to get the fan base that they hope for to justify and substantiate this just absolutely bloated budget.
I believe they've actually cast a Hispanic, by the way, as Hermione Granger, which she's one of the heroines along with Ron Weasley.
They at least made Harry Potter white, although.
I saw someone put out, I think it was the great Howling Mutant noted that, gosh, I didn't know that a lesbian was playing Harry Potter due to the actor's haircut.
But again, a lot of our listeners can scoff at this, but it's very important to understand what's happening in pop culture and with the rings of power and with a push to reinterpret lore and love that people have for this stuff.
I mean, it's.
Well, I think of the Ghostbusters.
Like I used to love Ghostbusters, the movie.
And when they did the rebank of that, it was a disaster.
They put, they made like an all female cast and half were black.
Remember?
And it was, um, that came out 10 years ago.
That's actually what got Milo Yiannopoulos suspended from Twitter because he was making fun.
He wrote a hilarious takedown, uh, review of the movie for Breitbart.
It's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
And he started making fun of the black actress who was a Saturday Night Live cast member.
They actually had, of the four female Ghostbusters, uh, Kristen Wigg was one.
Some corpulent, obese white actress.
She was in some sitcom on CBS.
She was one of the Ghostbusters, and then some other white SNL character actress.
She was sort of the Egon, supposed to be the smart character.
And it was so sad.
I actually watched the movie, and they brought Bill Murray in because he was contractually obligated to be in the movie, although he wasn't playing.
Dr. Spengler.
I think that's the character's name that he plays.
I hope I got that right.
I'd be embarrassed if my knowledge of Ghostbusters is waning.
But they kill off his character in like a minute.
And it's like, what?
What?
So you were contractually obligated to have Bill Murray and you kill off his character.
And yeah, the movie was supposed to spawn a number of sequels, but it was so hated that in a lot of ways, it kind of killed the careers of a number of the actresses that were involved in it.
Thank goodness.
And I know the director, I don't remember his name, but he continually talks about the online backlash to that film.
And it was Milo Yiannopoulos who led that on Twitter.
That was back in a very different internet.
And he was one of the shocking individuals to get banned.
And it was because of the two minutes hate that he was exposed to because he dared point out that.
The emperor of entertainment has no clothes.
All you're trying to do is just make a mockery of these beloved franchises, like a Ghostbusters from 1984.
Yeah, I mean, I think that was an attack on masculinity because that was a, you know, I loved the original Ghostbusters.
And for them to then bastardize it into a female cast and then add the diversity, it was just ridiculous.
I did not watch the movie.
Inner Harbor Mall Shifts00:04:24
We've only got a few minutes left here.
So I do want to point out one.
Story that we haven't talked about yet.
I think it's fascinating because it doesn't mention the racial angle at all.
Baltimore's Inner Harbor Pavilion sit quiet as former attractions fade away.
Have you been to Baltimore?
All right.
So the Inner Harbor is right next to Camden Yards.
It's like this one little pocket.
Baltimore has Fells Point.
That's a majority white community within Baltimore.
There are a couple others Federal Hill.
I forgot the name of a few of the others.
But Camden Yards is basically hey, we want to try and get some outside tourists come watch an Orioles game.
And here's this one part of Baltimore that we promise is going to be kept safe.
There's an aquarium, and you can see a lot of the historic sites.
Well, Once a bustling centerpiece of the city's tourism and retail scene is now marked by empty storefronts, shuttered attractions, and growing concerns about safety as redevelopment plans move forward.
Where families once packed in a massive multi level ESPN zone and the iconic Barnes Noble, the area has grown quiet.
The light and Pratt Street pavilions, once filled with local restaurants and shops, now lined with vacant spaces, their dark windows reflecting what's left of the crowds it used to be.
Well, if you look closely enough, those dark windows reflect.
The darkness of the inhabitants of Baltimore, a near 70% city, that is responsible for producing the type of criminality that has forced people to leave, surrounding and kept them away because of fear of being the victim of black crime.
Surrounding the harbor to the Sheraton Renaissance hotels have been hit hard, once housing hundreds of tourists.
Now the Sheraton has completely shuttered, and the Renaissance is fresh off a foreclosure sale, facing an uncertain future.
Even some of the boats that once brought people into the harbor are pulling away.
Tom, get this.
The spirit of Baltimore, a decades long dining and sightseeing attraction, is set to close its Baltimore port this spring.
The changes have been years in the making, tied to shifting shopping trends of the pandemic and delayed redevelopment plans.
Furthermore, this weekend showed signs of yet another setback a shooting along the waterfront.
It did involve a black suspect, adding a new layer of concern to an already struggling area.
Local economist and longtime Baltimore resident Anna.
Anirban Basu said the Inner Harbor has lost its reputation as a destination.
Quote, the Inner Harbor was perceived as a safe haven and it no longer is that.
It was really special.
It was unique.
It was Baltimore.
I think that most people would agree it needs to be redeveloped.
The question becomes, how should it be redeveloped?
And of course, Tom, the answer is it can't be as long as Baltimore is 70% black and rising.
Right.
Yeah.
I like how they use the word, you know, shifting shopping patterns as if that's the root cause.
No, the root cause is.
Black people, black violence, black crime.
That happens to every indoor shopping mall, unfortunately, like at least in Florida.
Most of all the indoor shopping malls here in Florida are empty.
If they're even still open, they've shifted to the outdoor mall model because of the same reason.
The malls of the 90s that I used to love, those are all closed.
And I remember going to the local mall here, and it was a fantastic experience as a kid growing up going to the mall with my parents.
And they had the arcade.
I used to go play at the arcade.
And great memories.
But then, you know, there were a couple shootings that happened, and it was because of blacks.
And the blacks started to go into the malls, and it just, they all group up and they walked in packs.
And it really made the people not want to shop there anymore.
And many such cases.
Yeah, I was actually shocked.
I was in the Inner Harbor in 2021.
It is an outdoor mall, actually, where it's got the, it's very cool to walk around.
You know, the harbor's there.
The Camden Yards is there where the Orioles play.
And I just looked it up and I was actually shocked to see that the Hard Rock Cafe, which is a very nice Hard Rock Cafe, actually, it's right next to the National Aquarium and right across the street from Camden Yards.
It's actually still open.
So I guess there are a few things still open, but not much if basically these two hotels, one shuttered and the other one was sold in bankruptcy court.
So, Not a good sign for the city that reads, or as I like to call it, the city that bleeds.
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